A GaN Single-Chip Front-End for Active Electronically Scanned Arrays

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Ciccognani, W. [1 ]
Colangeli, S. [1 ]
Costanzo, F. [1 ]
Giofre, R. [1 ]
Polli, G. [1 ]
Salvucci, A. [1 ]
Vittori, M. [1 ]
Limiti, E. [1 ]
Sotgia, M. [2 ]
Cirillo, M. [2 ]
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[1] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Via Politecn 1, Rome, Italy
[2] Rheinmetall Italia, Via Affile 102, Rome, Italy
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AESA; GaN; high power; S-Band; SCFE;
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A Single-Chip Front-End design exploiting a 250-nm gate length GaN process provided by United Monolithic Semiconductor (UMS) is proposed in this contribution. The design procedure and preliminary measurement results are provided. In Rx mode, a noise figure lower than 1.75 dB and a gain better than 30 dB, with a ripple lower than 0.5 dB, have been achieved. In Tx mode, a 45 dBm output power and 40% PAE have been achieved at the nominal operating point (11 dBm input power). The reported performance spans a 13% bandwidth in the S-band and the MMIC is targeted for Active Electronically Scanned Antenna applications. The whole chip occupies an area of 7x7 mm(2).
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